If it reduces energy use it is the right direction. If it uses non CO2 generating energy it is the right direction. Anything that generates more CO2 is worse than anything that generates less.
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Apple Releases First Public Beta of iOS 16.1 With Clean Energy Charging, Live Activities and More
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Ummm there already is…change it in notification settings from stack to list..🤪
So you’re suggesting apple should stop manufacturing phones on a year they dont release a new phone? Or is a new phone more environmentally destructive to manufacture. That’s all I was trying to get to.
Here’s what I mean:
Proposition: the design, development and manufacturing of new phones are bad for the environment.
Reasons/facts:
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Conclusion:
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Most people on limited internet aren’t likely to install a (large) beta right away.
It totally depends on the location of the environment. They care more about where the thing is used than where it is made.
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anyone has unswipeable folder bug. Normally, when you go through a folder with apps more than 1 page, you'd just swipe. now, I gotta use indicator dots below the folder
I don’t know but thanks for posting this question as it just got toggled OFF on my phone. So, back to the clean energy charging. So riddle me this, if your new iPhone 14 running 16.1 decides it’s dirty-energy time on its on by default and doesn’t charge your phone and you take said phone out in BFE and need some of that dirty-energy charge to use new Satellite emergency technology to save your or your family members’ bacon and poof your new reduced carbon phone runs out of clean battery juice, it seems to me that the earth will have some new carbon deposited and not the gaseous kind. I’m not saying it’s not a good idea with possibly 1 billion iPhones running around, but dang; at least ask when introducing it so the dirty or clean user can become aware and toggle it then, rather than having it stuffed down our throats. This, I don’t think will end pretty, as it will psychologically have/cause the effect of shorter battery life and I can just vision the future class action suit harkening back to battery-gate. Ugggh.
Clean Energy Charging? I find this farcical in light of flights flown daily as shown on this live flight map.
Right, but pretty sure the phone only updates to the latest public release if needed…not to a beta version. Or has that changed?
Yeah Tim and Co. are really worried about the environment flying around in their private jets.
Kind of ironic as they load up huge freighter jets flying in the new phones each year for launch!
Im surprised they released iOS 16 at all considering even the widgets on the lockscreen still aren’t even updating properly for some, and a ton of other bugs too lol.
there’s an issue with PiP 😩
It just greys out with a spinning wheel for me but the audio continues to play.
It just greys out with a spinning wheel for me but the audio continues to play.
No, it won’t. The impact will be an infinitesimal percentage of annual energy use. If every person on earth, 8 Billion, had an average 40 w-hour iPhone and charged every day to full capacity, total energy required would be less than 120 tera-watt-hours. The current annual energy production on earth is 170,000 tera-watt-hours, 140,000 tera-watt-hours of which is carbon fuel based energy, including biomass, coal, oil and natural gas. 120 tera-watt-hours is less than 0.09% of global energy production.
reference: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption
This Clean Charging is one of the dumbest things I ever heard of. If I plug my phone in to be charged it’s because I need it charged. Not whenever a certain percentage of a type of power generation is in use.
So to tell what’s being used it’s going to have to have access to Location. I also guess at times there’s no point in a fast charger.
Then what if I need to charge my phone in a hurry because of an emergency? It could be storm preps or a personal emergency. Or I could be having to run out and need a quick charge.
But for the sake of Clean Charge those of us in the real world better have some battery packs close by. Unless it doesn’t recognize those and they don’t work anymore. Fix it til it’s broke.
So to tell what’s being used it’s going to have to have access to Location. I also guess at times there’s no point in a fast charger.
Then what if I need to charge my phone in a hurry because of an emergency? It could be storm preps or a personal emergency. Or I could be having to run out and need a quick charge.
But for the sake of Clean Charge those of us in the real world better have some battery packs close by. Unless it doesn’t recognize those and they don’t work anymore. Fix it til it’s broke.
I agree with you, but there's still nothing not to like about this feature, assuming you can turn it off. It's an improvement, nonetheless. These days, anything that helps climate change in any way, no matter how minuscule, is good news.
No it won’t. if everyone in the world used smart phone and charged it once a day, 365 days a year, total power consumption of all of them less than 0.1% of total annual energy production by carbon based fuels.
It’s a statistically insignificant gesture. It’s effect will we less than a rounding error.
Better stop flying to holiday or to business trips, you save more CO2 than a car needs the whole year.
iPhones also have a huge footprint, if you count in the flight from china to around the world, all the fuel used to transport that little box to your hands.
Day one customers are badass environment polluter, better late order the iPhone and get your box per ship half a year later. Did you do this? 😀
And while we are at this… we should stop having children, get your vasectomy ready.
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Well, they could stop sending iPhones per planes around the world, just to satisfy tech vicious people. That would be a start.
No joke, this has been subject of lots of assessment already.
Hey Siri, Flatten the Duck! (2017)
Green the grid, and help off-grid users too, with a simple laptop, tablet and phone tweak or two. #FlattenTheDuck #cutCarbon
www.earth.org.uk
It *does matter* when devices are charged.